Antidrip device



Y. M. HOAG ANTIDRIP DEVICE Aug. 1, 1950 Filed Oct. 5, 1949 MW 4 NEYQYATES M. HoAcr Patented Aug. 1, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE YatesM. Hoa g, Utica, N. Y. Application October 3, 1949, Serial No. 119,358

This invention relates to a novel device or attachment, which may bequickly and easily connected with the parts or sections of the windowsat the front of the window openings normally at each side of anautomobile body, at each end of the front or driving compartment of amotor vehicle, such windows normally being known as no-draft orventilatingwindows, and which are mounted to turn, each about a verticalaxis, the front portions of said no-draft windows being swung into thecar and rear portions outwardly thereof. I

When it rains and the no-draft or venti1ating windows are thuspositioned, water at the outside of the window glass moving toward thefront and downwardly on the inwardly positioned portions, of suchventilating windows, drips into the car. My invention is directed to avery practical, novel, simple and readily attached device which controlssuch water, which would normally drip into the car and directs itrearwardly so that it falls or drips Outside of the car. It is an objectand purpose of the present invention to provide such novel andrelatively simple device which can be attached, in one size or modelthereof, to many different sizes and shapes of the no-draft orventilating windows, the material from which the device is made, in themain being of a rubber material sufficiently elastic and resilient thatit will stretch to conform to the different sizes and dimensions of suchWindows that are used.

An understanding of the invention may be had from the followingdescription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, inwhich,

Fig. 1 is an elevation of a no-draft or ventilating window with thedevice of my invention attached thereto.

Fig. 2 is a somewhat enlarged perspective view of the device of myinvention unattached.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section substantially on the plane of line 33 ofFig. 2 in the normal form thereof, and

Fig. 4 is a similar section therethrough when pressed against the outerside of the glass of the ventilating window.

Like reference characters refer to like parts in the different figuresof the drawing.

The structure comprises, in the main, two angularly disposed arms orlengths of a relatively live rubber preferably, one of the arms of saidlengths I in use being disposed vertically. At its rear edge between itsends and for the major portion of its length it has a trough 2 thereinbetween inner and outer lips 3 and 4.

4 Claims. (Cl. 296-44) The form of the cross section of the arm I, whennot in use, is as shown in Fig. 3, the inner lip 3 being disposed at anobtuse angle to and extending inwardly from the adjacent body por tionof the arm I. Said vertical arm or length I at its upper end isflattened and reduced in thickness to provide a short terminal uppersection 5 as shown. I

The second arm or length 6 is located at an acute angle to the length ofthe vertical arm I and in use extends upwardly and forwardly therefrom.It is integral with the lower end portion of the arm I and at its upperside has a trough lwith inner and outer spaced lips 8 and 9, such troughl and the lips 8 and 9 being substantially the same as the trough 2 andthe lips 3 and 4 on the first described arm I. The trough I at its lowerend leads to and communicates with an outlet passage Iil which is madethrough the integral juncture of the two arms I and 6, near the lowerend of said arm I. Such arm I, below said outlet opening I 0, is alsoformed with a short length of narrow thickness on a section II similarto section 5 at the upper end. Similarly the front or free end of thearm 5 has a like section I2 beyond the upper end of the trough 1.

0n the sections 5, II and I2, clips I3, I4 and 15, respectively, ofsheet metal and of a hook form, best shown in Fig. 2, are secured byrivets or other equivalent fastenings passing through the shanks of thehooks. The clip hooks extend beyond the ends of the sections 5, II andI2.

This device as described may be attached to a front no-draft orventilating window which have a glass body 6 provided with a frame I! ofmetal as shown in Fig. 1. Such window is mounted on the front door toturn about the axes of vertical pintles I8 which have a pivotal bearingat the front of the upper portion of an automobile front door, ahead ofthe normally vertical movable slidable glass window also carried by thedoor. The clips I3 and M at the upper and lower ends of the vertical armI engage the frame Il a short distance back of the pivot pins IS. Theclip I5 is hooked over the border frame I! usually slightly above thecurved lower forward portion thereof as shown in Fig. 1; The clips, whenattached to the border frame in this manner, cause the inner lips 3 and8 of the two arms I and 6 to be pressed against the outer side of theglass I6, thus deforming them from normal positions, as in Fig. 3, sothat the inner sides of the lips 3 and 8 are in the vertical plane ofthe outer side of the glass and the arms.

It will be understood that with the ventilating no-draft window in anopen position, that part of the window back of the common vertical axisof the pins I8 is swung outwardly from the automobile body. Water fromrain coming against the outer side of the window back of the verticalarm I cannot pass such arm but instead will be carried to the trough 2and, by gravity, run down to the lower end thereof and drip back of thelower pin [3 and, therefore, outside of the car. Water from rain infront of the vertical arm I and above the lower arm 5 will be deliveredin the trough l at the upper side of the arm 6 and, by gravity, godownwardly and to the rear through the outlet opening at W, and drip outside of the car at the same place as any water from the trough 2.Therefore, during a rain, water which would normally flow down the frontportion. of the glass it? at the outc side and drip from the lower sidethereof in front of the lower pin l8, and thus into the car, isprevented from entering the car and is directed to outside of the ear...

The device is attached by merely hooking the clip hooks l3, I l and I5over the front portion of the ventilating o no-draft window. Variationsin the dilierent sizes and shapes of such window are readily taken careof by the elasticity and, therefore, stretchability of the arms l' and.6, and such elasticity aids in maintaining the inside lips 3 and 8 ofthe respective arms I and 6 in, a snug, bearing relationship against theouter side of the glass [6.

The invention is defined in the appended claims and is to be consideredcomprehensive of all forms of structure coming within their scope.

I claim:

1. A structure as described comprising, an elongated arm normallyadapted to be locatedvertically, and provided with a trough at its rearedge, having an inner lip at the inner side of. the trough whichterminates in a, sharp edge and an outer lip, a second arm integral withthe first arm adjacent the lower end thereof and adapted to extendforwardly and upwardly therefrom,

having at its upper side a trough with an inner lip and an outer lipsubstantially the same as those on the first arm, said trough in thesecond arm having an outlet opening associated therewith passing throughthe juncture of said arms, and attaching means one at each the upper andlower ends of the first arm and at the outer free end of the second arm,adapting said device to be secured at the outer side and front portionof a motor vehicle no-draft or ventilating window.

2. A structure as defined in claim 1, said arms being of an elastic andresilient material, whereby they may be elongate-d by stretching forattachment to no-draft or ventilating windows of difierent shapes anddimensions.

3. A structure as defined in claim 1, said inner lips to said troughs onsaid arms normally extending at an obtuse angle to the inner sides ofsaid arms, and adapted when applied to a nodraft window to be pressedoutwardly so that. the inner sides of the lips are in the same planes.as the inner sides of said arms, thereby providing a sealing bearing ofsaid lips against the outer side of a window to which applied.

4. A structure as defined in claim 1, said vertical arm at its upper andlower ends, and said second arm at its outer forward free ends eachhaving relatively short and narrow width in,- tegral sections, and saidattaching means, each comprising a hook of flat metal, the shanks ofsaid hooks being permanently secured to said sections and said hooksextending beyond the outer ends of said narrow width sections.

YATES M. HOAG.

REFERENCES ciriu) The following references are of record in the file ofthis patent:

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